Hunting Season and Ziplines

So, I went to Calgary for a couple days with a bunch of PharmaFriends.

We went to AHEIA Calgary Firearms Centre, which confuses the hell out of you by using a name that is deliberately uninformative and mysterious. In fact, even in the Yellow Pages, the listing mentioned no address and only a URL and phone number.
Still, I found out that it was cheap. Several bucks for shotgun rental and $8.50 for a box of 25 shells. And even crazier, FREE instruction. In fact, it cost just over $60 total for 5 people, for 2 hours, with free individualized instruction on how to use a shotgun. Clay target shooting, that is. Just like the Olympics. The instructor was good, being a former Olympic competitor. He was very receptive and helpful in teaching us the ways of the shotgun for 1 and 1/2 hrs. I got pretty good at it by the end, shooting about half of the clay pigeons that popped up.

Fun, yet somewhat disturbing, especially since the instructor left us alone for 5 minutes with 4 shotguns and a bunch of boxes of shells. You do the math.

Also, I went on the Zipline, a new thing at Calgary Olympic Park. So you can fly down the ski jump, attached to a wire and a harness. Luckily, I asked, and ain't no one died yet. Just a leg fracture, that's all. And that was because the person didn't follow proper braking procedures. It wasn't as scary as I thought. Still it was pretty cool, flying down the hill, though a bit pricey at $50.

I keep telling my friend Sinister Dex that he should hoop up a Zipline from his Newton Place balcony to DP6069 of the DentPharm building. It would take only 10 seconds to get to class.